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Show 1 f THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE ) . 1 I , To receive attention every gueitlen must bear tha nam and address ' of the person sending It This does not noeeeearily mean that the name Z will be published when ths ausstien Is answered i only tha inltlsls will bo used U tha Questioner desires. Na attention will be psld te aueriee to which tha nama and addroaa ef tha sender are not appended. 1 plclon that the editor of the Cologne paper and those whom his writings fool are going to have a sudden awakening; awak-ening; when Black Jack ferihlng and his crack troops ret Into the fighting line. And they will only be the advance ad-vance guard of the hundred, of thousands thou-sands of Americans who will bo pitting pit-ting Ihrir love of liberty against German Ger-man fealty to a royal house which has deluded Itself Into a belief that Its power cornea from divinity Itself, i - TATRlOT. ' "CONTEMPTIBLE AMERICANS." Editor The Telegram: (- When Kngtand came Into the war all the German journala made light of the military aid the British could render, and apoke with aneers of the "con. . temptlble little British army." According to the Prussian mind this army waa contemptible becauno It waa email, because its members voluntarily enlisted fur the service and were paid a better stipend than la the rule In Germany. Korsooth. - therefore, they were mercenaries and would give t:ie ' Germans small worry. Borne of the Kaiser's best generals learned differ-. differ-. anily In the great retreat of the Marne and in every place where they en- countered the aturdy little company from tha British Isle. Now America Is In ths war and what the German prees once said of British troops, It now saya of the Americana. Listen to the hoars bellow of the Cologne Co-logne Volksseltung: ' ' " "Not a mother in Germany will put ' ' the American soldier even to so mean a naace aa a bogey with which to " frighten her naughty children. We are practically certain, as all Germane are. that since the dsys of that wretched j piece of sham fighting known as the Spanish war. when the American ! ; : mountain brought forth such a rldicu- I us mouse, the United Bute army. . though it may have aaaumed some of ,' the estemal characteristics of the present day. haa undergone practically no change for the better. "Ita spirit, which la purely and blatantly bla-tantly mercenary, la the same, and this will be proved when the time comes I it it ever does when the Yank basis once again go forth to meet the1 . - enemy." Wa bar a sorr rf sneaking ' ans-j |